BBI JU opens its 7th call for proposals with 102 M€ for boosting European bioeconomy
Type of post: NEWS.
The seventh and last BBI JU Call for proposals under the Horizon 2020 programme is now open until 3 September 2020, 17:00 CET. With an indicative budget of 102 M€, it covers 16 topics in four strategic orientations defined in the Strategic Innovation and Research Agenda of the European bio-based industries (SIRA): feedstock, process, products, and market uptake.
Press release: “Over 100 million available for advancing European bio-based sector”, 15/4/2020.
More information available here:
- BBI JU 2020 Call booklet.
- BBI JU Virtual Info Day (22/4/2020).
Figure 1. BBI JU 2020 Call booklet cover
Since its first call in 2014, the BBI JU
portfolio has grown to 101 projects with nearly 1,200 beneficiaries from 36
countries and total funding of 600 M€. By mid-2020, another 23 projects from
the 2019 Call will join in, raising the number of beneficiaries to almost 1,500
and the number of countries to 37. In this last call, the proposals selected
for funding will be known by January 2021 at the latest, and the grant
agreements with the project teams should be signed by May 2021.
On the occasion of the Call launch, Philippe
Mengal (BBI JU Executive Director) commented: “I can proudly say that the
bio-based industry is maturing and our projects are delivering concrete
results. We expect BBI JU projects to create more than 200 new cross-sector
interconnections and 180 new bio-based value chains by the end of this year, by
far exceeding the targets set in SIRA, which called for 36 interconnections and
10 value chains. I invite you to apply for the Call and join the growing BBI JU
community building together a strong European bio-based sector.”.
Summary of the topics (extracted from the press
release):
Topic
|
Type
of action
|
Indicative
budget (M€)
|
BBI2020.SO2.R1 — Use enabling technologies to improve feedstock availability
and sustainability for the bio-based industry
|
RIA
|
22
|
BBI2020.SO2.R2 — Develop integral fractionation of lignocellulose to produce
components for high-value applications
|
||
BBI2020.SO2.R3 — Develop bio-based solutions to recycle composites
|
||
BBI2020.SO2.R4 — Extract bioactive compounds from new, under-exploited and/or
recalcitrant residual bio-based streams for high-value applications
|
||
BBI2020.SO3.R5 — Improve the sustainability of coatings
|
||
BBI2020.SO1.D1 — Resolve supply-chain hurdles for turning residual waste
streams into functional molecules for food and/or non-food market
applications
|
DEMO
|
28
|
BBI2020.SO1.D2 — Use biogenic gaseous carbon to increase feedstock availability
for the industry
|
||
BBI2020.SO2.D3 — Upscale the production of bio-based platform molecules for
larger market applications
|
||
BBI2020.SO3.D4 — Demonstrate superior bio-based packaging solutions with
minimal environmental damage
|
||
BBI2020.SO1.F1 — Valorise the organic fraction of municipal solid waste through
an integrated biorefinery at commercial level
|
FLAG
|
47
|
BBI2020.SO1.F2 — Turn lignin into materials and chemicals for high-end
applications
|
||
BBI2020.SO1.F3 — Produce food ingredients with high nutritional value from
aquatic sources
|
||
BBI2020.SO4.S1 — Help start-ups and spin-offs to gain access to finance
|
CSA
|
5
|
BBI2020.SO4.S2 — Provide insight on emerging technologies for bio-based value
chains
|
||
BBI2020.SO4.S3 — Create and interlink bio-based education centres to meet
industry’s needs of skills and competences
|
||
BBI2020.SO4.S4 — Expand circular economy to include the underexploited circular
bioeconomy
|
||
Total
|
102
|